Embroidery 101: First Stitches

A beginner embroidery class where you stitch and take home your own freestyle embroidered swatch of fabric to display or use as a patch! Learn the basics like how to use an embroidery hoop and about needle/fabric/thread choices. You'll learn a few different stitches and create personalized designs with them! All materials are included. We will have a Bob Ross-like, no mistakes only happy accidents approach to embroidery, it's like sketching on fabric! Come make a cute little piece of art with us :) You will learn: • choosing needle, thread, and fabric • putting fabric in hoop • preparing embroidery floss, • threading the needle • how to knot the end • different types of stitches and ways to use them to create different effects Gallery Wrightwood is: an anti-capitalist, artist-led gallery project inside a 100-year-old church building in the heart of Logan Square that hosts art shows, workshops, and social gatherings. We're focused on making approachable creative spaces and showing human-made artworks that speak to urgent social issues. The gallery has been running since October 2023 on volunteer passion and power! Learn more about us on Instagram at @gallerywrightwood or at https://www.stlukesls.org/gallerywrightwood